by Malcolm Salter - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives. This, along with the trade-offs they face and the at-times unintended consequences of the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas, tightly coupled with online stores, was the business model of... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

29 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

CEO Jamie Salter in the case about his rationale. Two stars combine: Messi and Beckham Beckham leveled up his talent in 2023, working behind the scenes to draw Argentinian legend Lionel Messi to play for his Miami franchise. Coming off a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

04 Nov 2014
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emotion regulation-mainly suppression and reappraisal-will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally charged contexts and that this effect will be mediated by the decision maker's decreased deontological inclinations. In Study 1, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2003
News

18 Nov 2021
News

Fewer Boots, More Slippers: How a Shortage of Shipping Containers is Changing What Shows Up on Shelves

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

sort of subscription offering, according to a new industry and background note coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek. And they’re expected to multiply in the years ahead, with subscription billings View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

Article

Total Quality Management and the Human Resource Professional: Applying the Baldrige Framework to Human Resources

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Christopher L. Hart

The still evolving discipline of total quality management (TQM) has left many human resource professionals confused about their role. The authors believe that the HR function personnel should spearhead company quality efforts, as well as assess the performance of their... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources

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25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

by harnessing a new business model. The bold approach worked. Gilead, one of the world’s leading antiviral makers, would sell its branded Hepatitis C medicines while offering local manufacturers voluntary licenses to produce generics,... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

1997
Book

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

By: Clayton M. Christensen

His work is cited by the world's best known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Leadership

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07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

using art to sharpen the intuitiveness that goes into the moment of choice." Others maintained that choosing is neither an art nor a science. Laurence McKinney said, "We ultimately base our decisions on 'feelings'" and emotions, aided View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

new chapter on the conduct of industrial governance and American capitalism." - Malcolm S. Salter But the President left the door slightly open for selective intervention when he pledged... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are more necessary than ever. Rangan says that when carefully planned... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations.... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

more efficient at slow thinking by improving processes for deliberation and making decisions. Do you agree with what Kahneman implies here? Does bureaucracy have its advantages? Is this one of them? What do you think? To Read More: View Details